POSTED: Monday, August 31, 2009

Not another browser?

A developer and self-styledexistentialist librarianin England called this to our attention today. This is an all-in-one browser, called Lunascape an appropriate name, because it has arisen out of the blue.The Lunascape browser's latest (global) version was released August, 10, 2009. The vendor calls this the World's First and Only Triple Engine Browser as it uses Trident + Gecko + WebKit. Using the Gecko engine version 1.9.1.2 (the same as Firefox 3.5.2); WebKit (Safari and Chrome); and Trident...

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Posted by Michael MacNaughton on Monday, August 31, 2009 in Software (3)

POSTED: Monday, March 30, 2009

IE 8 Faster than Firefox? Yes!

Having downloaded both IE8 BETA releases in order to better understand the re-coding necessary on some of our menu systems I was sorely disappointedin both IE8 performance and User Interface.Since UI is subjective I'll let that piece drop and talk about speed. After Microsoft released the final version of IE we noticed a definite increase in thespeed of IE8 vs Firefox 3.0.7. We called around to other developers and they were reporting similar experiences - all purely anecdotal, though. We were...

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Posted by Michael MacNaughton on Monday, March 30, 2009 in Software (3)

POSTED: Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Free MS Windows XP Programs

Here you'll find a long listing of available downloads from Microsoft relating to the Windows XP programming. The listings include such useful links as Sysinternals (if you want to get friendly with the guts of Windows) and arcane BETA programs such as Group Bar. We've also included links to the newly acquired (by Microsoft)3D modeling tool TrueSpace as well as to Games like Carioca Rummy andHardware like the FingerPrint Reader. You may also find your fill of Screensavers (including BSOD) and...

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Posted by Michael MacNaughton on Wednesday, January 07, 2009 in Software (3)